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Testing speed vs coverage: how to stop choosing

The Test Automation Engineer dilemma Your company is growing. You have more customers. You add more features and support more use cases. You can’t afford breakages and downtimes anymore, so you decide to improve the robustness and quality of your testing. In parallel, supporting your growth means hiring more developers, who need to ship fast, with early feedback and limited context-switch, while also sharing a pool of finite test and deploy resources. Covering more or staying fast is often the dilemma Test Automation Engineers face. ...

June 30, 2026 · 3 min · Theo Penavaire